The Micah Mandate

It began on 22 September and after 8 weeks, the PKR 2018 Election has drawn to a close, or maybe not. “I don’t know why (they are celebrating). We have yet to reach the end (of the poll),” she (the PKR President) told reporters after launching the Astro Junior Championships U15 (Regional) badminton tournament, here.… Read the article

The introduction on the Wikipedia page on ICERD says, The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) is a United Nations convention. A third-generation human rights instrument, the Convention commits its members to the elimination of racial discrimination and the promotion of understanding among all races.… Read the article

I came across an article entitled “White evangelicals are the sleeping giant of the 2018 midterms” recently. The author claimed that conservative evangelical Christians are an important support base for Donald Trump and the Republican Party. In an effort to explain why this is so, despite an overwhelmingly popular view that Trump and the Republicans have been unfair, unjust and unmerciful in their views and policies towards the weak and marginalised, he has tried to look at Trump’s presidency from the point of view of this group of people.… Read the article

In his epochal commentary on the biblical Epistle to the Romans in 1919, the Swiss theologian Karl Barth reminded his readers that “It was the Church, and not the world, that crucified Christ.” These are words that we need to recall constantly. Authoritarian governments have sprung up all the world in recent years, many of them supported by people calling themselves “Bible-believing Christians.” Even as I write, such folk in Brazil are preparing to vote into the Presidency a former army officer who is brazenly racist, misogynistic, contemptuous of the poor and defensive of the military dictatorship in Brazil’s dark era of repression.… Read the article

A few days ago, during a parliamentary session, Zahid raised a question: The incident in Palu (Indonesia), it was said that over 1,000 people were involved in the (LGBT) activities and the area was hit (by the disaster). This is a punishment from God. “I would like to ask, as part of Malaysian Islamic Development Department’s (Jakim) tasks to implement the Mukhayyam outreach programme to help the LGBT community, on steps taken by the government agencies and other states on this issue.… Read the article

Ever since he burst onto the national stage in the 70s, I have felt that Anwar’s agenda was not “Malaysian”, but “Malay” and “muslim”. This was not in any way predicated on any detailed knowledge, but impressions garnered from newspapers. When Anwar shifted from an external pressure group (ABIM) to join UMNO, I felt that he was a man who was willing to be used because he believes he can use those who would use him.… Read the article